From Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update:
IP expert Daniel Gervais has proposed reforming copyright law to add a new remuneration right for creators whose work is used to train generative AI models. He says it would strange for copyright law to not evolve in the context of the most “consequential technological change in history”
A white paper published by CIAM and the Fair Trade Music programme has set out proposals for a new remuneration right that would see creators earn royalties when generative AI models have been trained with their work.
The paper has been written by Professor Daniel Gervais, who is director of the intellectual property programme at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville.
Illustrating how the new right would work in practice, the white paper explains, “when a music streaming service filled a stream with AI-produced music, it would pay for the use of the copyrighted works in the dataset used by its generative AI model”.
That payment would be in addition to any income generated by licensing deals negotiated by copyright owners at the point the AI model was trained.”
